WAR IN THE AIR.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17286, 29 September 1916, Page 5

WAR IN THE AIR.

RAID ON ENGLAND. j A GERMAN ACCOUNT., Australian and N.Z. Cabla Aoaociation. AMSTERDAM, September 27. A Berlin official message says that naval airships on September 25-26 dropped explosive incendiary bombs with visible success on the naval harbour at Portsmouth, fortified places at the mouth of the Thames, industrial and railway establishments 61 military importance in Yorkshire, and at Leeds, Lincoln and Derby., The airships returned undamaged. ANXIETY AND DISAPPOINTMENT. Router’s Telegrams. AMSTERDAM, September 28. The German newspapers are not concealing their anxiety over the loss of the Zeppelins ' The Conservative militarists paper, the “ Koenig Zeitung,” deprecates fears of the discovery of the secrets of Zeppelin construction and says a more genous reason fo- anxiety is the improvement of the British anti-aircraft defences. It regrets that the Zeppelin was not employed more ruthlessly earner in W PARIS, September 28. Advices from Switzerland rtjto that Count Zeppelin is all-obsessed with the idea of destroying London and is much mortified at the growing popular resentment at the poor results of the Zeppelin raids, '